(Submitted photo/City of Melfort)

By Ben Tompkins

Recognizing Greatness

Melfort world champion chuckwagon racer to have entrance signs established throughout community

Mar 16, 2023 | 4:33 PM

Layne MacGillivray is set to be the new face of the City of Melfort, at least when people are entering the community.

The world-champion chuckwagon racer was born and raised in Melfort, graduating from MUCC in 1993.

Now, there will be three signs installed, one at each entrance of the city, recognizing this accomplishment.

“A key to marketing our community outside of the immediate area is to develop an identity, and making people aware of the success our community achieves is one way of doing that,” the City of Melfort told northeastNOW.

“This is a meaningful form of recognition to show pride in the success that Layne McGillivray has reached as a world champion chuckwagon driver,” they added. “He has achieved one of the highest honours in the sport and his community is proud of him.”

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The four by eight feet signs were donated by the MacGillivray and Claggett families, along with a third anonymous donor.

They will cost roughly $2,000 to install (two along Saskatchewan Drive and one on Broadway Ave North), a cost which is already covered by the city’s existing operating budget.

Melfort approved the installation of these three signs at their latest monthly council meeting and is hoping to have them erected by the spring or summer of this year.

MacGillivray is a professional chuckwagon driver with the World Professional Chuckwagon Association (WPCA).

He travels across Alberta, Saskatchewan, and B.C., competing in chuckwagon racing from May until September.

MacGillivray is a third-generation professional chuckwagon competitor and won his first world championship, late last year.

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